How do I change the apple id to update apps from Appstore on mac

Sure, be picky about the nomenclature usage of "core app". Regardless, this configuration is patently absurd wherein the original user's Apple ID must be used.

Consider a scenario wherein it's a computer used at a company (unfortunately, this happens). The original employee may no longer work at the company. If that user used their personal Apple ID when the machine was initialized, then you're hamstrung.

The real discussion shouldn't be about what is and isn't a "core app". The discussion should be about how and when Apple will change this completely unsuitable constraint.

I am explaining how the system works. If you are unhappy with the Apple ecosystem, there are other company's products one can use.

The intelligent way that a company should be conducting it's business with Apple hardware/software is through an IT department that creates the company's own Apple IDs for it Mac's/iOS devices with which it configures the hardware and purchases software from Apple with proper business volume licenses.

If company policy allowed, employees would also still be able to use their individual Apple accounts to install their own previous consumer purchases on their company Mac/iOS device.

I'm not being picky, I'm being correct. Two different things.

Move the apps that are giving you this issue to your trash. The App Store will update a few seconds later and they will no longer show up in your list of apps that need updating. If you are signed in with your own Apple ID then those apps should show up under Purchases and you can download them from there.

Hope that helps!

ChewbaccaFreak,

Thanks for helping. I'll try this out as soon as time allows. I'll write back if it doesn't work 🙂

Thanks again

Dah-veed,

First I want to thank you for your technically correct answers to dumpsterdave's questions. I also want to thank you for still having that Apple swagger that I haven't seen for a while. Namely the "If you don't like the Apple Ecosystem, go somewhere else" attitude. I've missed seeing that. I might even re-invest in Apple if people continue to believe that.

At any rate, I found this thread because I'm in IT for a company that has multiple Macs for our developers. If I understand you correctly, I need to use a generic apple ID for my devices, and then provide that password to everyone in my company? Yeah. That's totally secure. Let me remind you that apple IDs have credit cards associated with them. Or I have to create new apple IDs for each device, tie those to the computer and provide that to my users? That's totally sustainable.

You talk about Apple Volume licensing, but how does that work for the "default" apps, I don't care if they're core or provided for free with the purchase of the system.. they're default apps.

It's stupid. Plain and simple. I don't care if its the way it works, it is absolutely assinine to tie the Apple ID of the first admin to the computer in a way that's not changeable without a re-format.

ChewbaccaFreak: Thanks for the trash bin suggestion. I'll forward it to my users and hopefully can report on the results.

You talk about Apple Volume licensing, but how does that work for the "default" apps, I don't care if they're core or provided for free with the purchase of the system.. they're default apps.

The volume licensing for the core apps, the apps that are installed as part of OSX, are handled as the OS X license. These apps are only updated with the operating system, not individually. The iLife apps are the company's to do with as they wish. They are consumer apps for storing photos, making home movies and making home music. They don't even have to be left on a corp Mac. If the individual employee assigned the Mac has their own Apple ID, they can use that to install any of their personally acquired consumer apps of their choosing, apart from any software that the company has installed, as long as the Mac is solely in that employee's control.

I need to use a generic apple ID for my devices, and then provide that password to everyone in my company? Yeah. That's totally secure. Let me remind you that apple IDs have credit cards associated with them. Or I have to create new apple IDs for each device, tie those to the computer and provide that to my users? That's totally sustainable.

First, Apple IDs do not have to have credit cards associsted with them, especially if the company is making volume license purchases. I have never suggested that my clients go the generic Apple ID you posit here. My clients create Apple IDs for each Mac using email addresses created with their company domain. As long as an Apple ID does not use an Apple email domain, the email can be changed as needed, also the password.

Apple Volume Licensing -

http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/

Creating a new Apple ID for an iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store account without a credit card -

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534

Changing the email address you use for your Apple ID -

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5621

Manage your Apple ID -

https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/

I have a similar situation happening. Would a reasonable solution be to create a new user account on the machine and then be sure to use the preferrred Apple ID when prompted the first time? Or will it be necessary to do something more extreme like reinstall the OS?

What if it's the operating system update? I can't trash that, and it won't allow me to update with my Apple ID. it's requiring the original purchaser/IT dept ID.

Here's the rub - What if your Apple ID was linked to a mac.com email account, which no longer works. Now I'm, trying to update my software and it always wants to pull it up with that old email account(ID). I've since changed my Apple ID to shorten it to something other than the email, but I can't change the Apple ID within the product updates window login, even when I'm logged in as my updated Apple ID.

Arrrrrgh!

I have mac.com Apple IDs. I maintain them both, one for my accounts with Apple, such as here for the ASC. The other for my iTunes/Mac App Store content. It's not difficult. Just because the user name is a defunct mac.com email address doesn't mean that you can't update the primary email associated with the Apple ID to a functioning email address. The one for my Apple accounts is a gmail address and the one for my iTunes/MAS account is a hotmail address. In fact the 3rd party mail service addresses are the same as the mac.com addresses except for the domain. It makes them easy to remember.

For example;

abc.def.ghi@mac.com became abc.def.ghi@gmail.com and 123.456.789@mac.com became 123.456.789@hotmail.com

i have bought a refurbished macbook pro.. i dont have a password of the earlier user... and i cant udpdate my app store and i cant change the apple id. can some one tell me how to change the app store apple id

A refurbished MBP should have been erased and have nothing left from a previous user. You have no legal right to software bought by a previous owner. You need to erase the HDD and start over.

So how does one safely reset the hard drive without killing the computer?? Humor an idiot please!!

OS X Recovery -

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

Turns out that you can't change the apple id associated with a program, but you can delete the program (move it to the trash and empty the trash) and reinstall it with your apple id. If it's a program you purchased for another machine, or a free program, you can download it from the app store free.

I had two programs, iPhoto and iMovie with that problem and it worked for me. No cost, and they are now associated with my apple id.